McCabe was famously fired by the FBI on March 16, 2018, after a Justice Department inspector general's report found he had repeatedly misstated his involvement in a leak to The Wall Street Journal regarding an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The watchdog office referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, which has been investigating.

“His credibility is non-existent," The Hill media reporter Joe Concha told Fox News. "This is truly a disservice to CNN viewers, which will only further plunge the network's credibility into a black hole.”